Twenty-second International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Key Topics

• Geographical perspectives on spaces and flows
• Sociology: concepts and practices
• Psychology of the social
• What are the behavioral sciences?
• Economics as social science
• Where mind meets world: cognitive science as interdisciplinary practice
• Philosophy’s place in the social sciences
• Sociology and history: the dynamics of synchrony and diachrony
• Health in community
• Social welfare studies as interdisciplinary practice
• Research and knowledge in action: the applied social sciences
• Horizons of interest: agenda setting in the social sciences
• Social sciences for social welfare
• Social sciences for the professions
• Social breakdown: dysfunction, crime, conflict, violence
• Accounting for inequalities: poverty and exclusion
• Technologies in and for the social
• Social sciences addressing social crisis points
• Commonalities, differences and relationships between the social and the natural sciences: research methodologies, professional practices and ethical positions
• Economics, politics and their social effects: investment, ownership, risk, productivity, competition, regulation and deregulation, public accountability, stakeholders, trust, worklife, resource distribution, consumption, wellbeing, living standards
• The social sciences in the applied sciences and professions: engineering, architecture, planning, computing, tourism, law, health
• Research methodologies involving ‘human subjects’